I cannot tell you how much I love this. To me, quite time reading it one of the most personal was to spend time with someone you love. So for me, this speaks volumes about how much they care for each other. Yes, pun intended.

Finally a portrayal of a young Celestia with a pool blue mane instead of lemonade pink. I would argue that Princess Celestia would have pool blue hair rather than lemon pink when she was younger as most canonical portrayals of her have the pool blue mane. Unfortunately most artists portray young Celestia with a solid pink mane due to the prologue at the beginning of the series.

I would actually say it's turquoise not pool blue but I wholeheartedly agree on the matter of "finally not this pink cotton horror".Besides Celestia's main mane colours are blue and green with only one pink stripe.

Even though I do like her with this blue color of mane, I fully understand people giving her a pink mane (also it does suit her very well). The prologue images of Celestia and Luna were spot on with Luna's mane being a light blue on a darker body. So why wouldn't it be the same for Celestia? [link]

I am curious where in canon it has portrayed Celestia with a blue mane? I can't seem to find any at the moment... google images are a hazard to the eyes lol

Just injecting this image in. Sorry if I am late for the debate! [link]

That image, taken from the wiki, is from "The Return of Harmony Part 1." Along with the banner in "Hearth's Warming Eve," there are two instances of Princess Celestia in canon being portrayed with a pool blue mane. The only canonical portrayal of Celestia with a pink mane was in the pilot episodes, so that's why I have claimed that "most canonical portrayals" depict her with a pool blue mane.

That image still doesn't convince me in any way, shape or form since Luna never had a Purple mane or purple eyes. You see, that is stained glass, it's meant to be artistic. If you look, it shows Celestia with the same color blue eyes as that mane. So if you are suggesting that that gives evidence, a stained glass window, then it would be that Celestia had blue eyes and mane and Luna had purple eyes and mane. Doesn't make any sense since Luna showed the light blue mane and teal eyes in Season 1 that matched the prologue at the beginning. I would say that prologue was pretty damn important and more thought out as well than a random flag and an artistic rendering on stained glass later in the show. Last, if you look, it's supposed to show her mane being like the clouds/morning sky, hence the same color (same with Luna and the night sky). Again, its an artistic rendering shown through stained glass. It was telling the story the two alicorns representing day and night.

Again, those two instances portraying a blue or turquoise mane are very insignificant if you consider the prologue was a freakin lot longer screen time and importance to the show.

That banner doesn't convince me, especially since it's not a full screen shot (don't know if it isn't doctored) and the show has been known to mess up colors often when the scene is not important. I mean, by that logic, then Luna would have a purple mane before she gets her "starry" one. If it's that hard to find pictures of her mane being blue instead of the pink depicted, then I will stick with the "her hair used to be pink" theory since all the depictions of Celestia in those storytelling scenes had blatant pink. Anyways thanks for going through the trouble of finding a reference, I think she looks good with Turquoise hair and good with the pink hair. To each their own.

Faust also had a big hand in the Hearth's Warming eve episode, so I guess take that as you will.

And I agree, and I don't feel very strongly about it being one color or another. Just throwing out that blue's been hinted/shown as a possibility. Maybe it changed colors depending on the sun? All sorts of crazy possibilites we could come up with, but we won't ever be sure until they show us some actual images of the two princesses in their youth (Which would be really awesome-- I wish they would do this!). Until then we can happily go along with our own little headcanons. c:

The reason I asked for some evidence was because your original sentence basically stated that most of her "canonical portrayals" had referenced a blue mane, which isn't true since there are not many portrayals of her with a blue mane throughout the show (I've watched every episode many times). Not saying it isn't possible for her to have had a blue mane when she was younger. Just pointing out that it isn't referenced as much as your original statement suggested and that the pink would make more sense since Luna matched the original prologue images. Nothing against you, just the way you worded your original statement. Which is also a contradiction to what you are saying now about it only being a possibility :/ I wholeheartedly agree with your current statement about it being a possibility, just not your original statement about it being the most "canonically portrayed" color. Sorry if I sound confusing ^^' No harm done though, it's fun to speculate ^^

Ahh this is so pretty, the colors are fantastic! Also I love that you made Celestias mane a tealish color, I thought I was the only one who made it that color I think its looks so much nicer than the pink one, but hey creative freedom and whatnot :3